A Master Builder

2013

Action / Drama

19
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh82%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled57%
IMDb Rating5.910955

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Wallace Shawn as Halvard Solness
Larry Pine Photo
Larry Pine as Dr. Herdal
Julie Hagerty Photo
Julie Hagerty as Aline Solness
Lisa Joyce Photo
Lisa Joyce as Hilde Wangel
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23.976 fps
2 hr 10 min
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English 2.0
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23.976 fps
2 hr 10 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ronkoyama10 / 10

Wallace Shawn is Great

It's neat to see Jonathan Demme's direction of this, which was five years after the last feature film he made (Rachel Getting Married). It's still very good, as are his recent documentaries like My Cousin Bobby. You can tell this is a play adapted for the big screen but Wallace Shawn is amazing and as far as plays go you can't do much better than Ibsen. It's a great play and the adaption is good.

Reviewed by gavin69427 / 10

Definitely a Play on Film

A successful, ego-maniacal architect (Wallace Shawn) who has spent a lifetime bullying his wife, employees and mistresses wants to make peace as his life approaches its final act.

While this is a very good film, it must be stressed: this was originally a play, and it comes across very obviously as a play, even on film. The dialogue is dense, far more than your usual conversation. And the sets are minimal. Not sparse, but few... are there even six different rooms in the whole two hours? I feel like I have seen another version of this play done before (on film, not in person). But this probably is the defining version. Wallace Shawn is great, but really Lisa Joyce steals the show. In the few years this has been out, her career has moved along steadily, but she's not the big name she should be. Someone cast this woman in the right role!

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Reviewed by SnoopyStyle5 / 10

weird unrealism

Halvard Solness (Wallace Shawn) is a successful architect on his sick bed. Aline (Julie Hagerty) is his long suffering wife. He tells Dr. Herdal (Larry Pine) about how he kept his worker Ragnar Brovik (Jeff Biehl). He hired Ragnar's girlfriend Hilde Wangel (Lisa Joyce) to keep Ragnar working for him. Hilde comes over to visit Halvard. She reminds him about their first meeting ten years ago as a fourteen year old.

This is based on Henrik Ibsen's play. There is a weird unrealism by keeping all the Norwegian names. It's strange to see this exercise and a somewhat effective one. Lisa Joyce's overacting only adds to the otherworldly feel. Wallace Shawn is brilliant as always and keeps the audience's attention. Julie Hagerty does her most powerful work. It has tension from dancing on the edge of madness but it never escapes its play origins.

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